Earlier this week, deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg met with a group of students who had been mentored by Learning Launchpad’s venture Arrival Education, to discuss the challenges that young people face on their transition into adulthood. Mr Clegg congratulated the students on their achievements, and sought their advice on steps the government could take [...]
Category Archives: Portfolio news
Enabling Enterprise Launches
June 1, 2010 – 5:45 pm
Blog post by Tom Ravenscroft, CEO of Enabling Enterprise.Enabling Enterprise is about getting practical learning and skills development into every classroom, and our official launch event on Thursday 20th May was a chance to showcase what we are up to. Seventy guests from across business, education and public sectors gathered at UBS in the heart [...]
Future First revolutionises state school careers advice
May 10, 2010 – 2:36 pm
Learning Launchpad investee Future First have launched this trailer. Find out how they are revolutionising state school careers advice using web-based platforms.
Working Rite is hiring a new COO
April 27, 2010 – 10:26 am
Working Rite is a dynamic and growing social enterprise delivering a unique work-based mentoring model for young people in Scotland and England. Theywill shortly be recruiting a Chief Operating Officer to guide theirgrowth, exploit new opportunities and put in place robust management systems. As well as playing a full senior management role, the COO would [...]
The proof is in the pudding
April 27, 2010 – 10:01 am
Faking It is the two week programme that challenges unemployed young people to fake it in a new profession. The pilot programme, in April 2009 was recorded by Young Foundation advisor Karen Freyer and Ed Owles from Native Voice Films and edited by our intern Gaia Marcus. The video is now publicly available.
Space Unlimited calls it “Uncommon Sense”
April 19, 2010 – 5:45 pm
Taken from Space Unlimited’s blog, written by Heather Sim. Innovation involves uncertainty. It’s just not possible to try out something new without taking some risks along the way. Learning how to handle uncertainty and risks is therefore a crucial life skill. You might say it’s common sense. In our projects, we ask everyone to take [...]
Now we are (nearly) three
March 22, 2010 – 6:33 pm
As we come up to the Learning Launchpad’s third birthday, it feels like the right time to reflect on the ups and downs of the past three years and ponder our future. Since partnering with Edge to develop the Learning Launchpad fund, we’ve achieved a whole lot. Many of our investees have secured major commitments [...]
David Lammy launches Fastlaners
March 11, 2010 – 6:55 pm
David Lammy (Minister of State for Higher Education) announced the official launch of Fastlaners. Fastlaners is an East London-based scheme that was developed by Learning Launchpad’s Zarlasht Halaimzai (now at Studio Schools) to help graduates make the transition into the world of work. It is a crash course on everything from voice training to team [...]
Faking it chefs cook for the Queen
March 4, 2010 – 11:36 am
Just days after Faking It participants Jack and Sameer cooked us a delicious lunch at our workshop day they casually let us know that they were cooking for a certain member of the royal family… I’m sure that the Queen enjoyed their food as much as we did. It is so rewarding for us to [...]
Jack on sustainability
March 2, 2010 – 12:36 pm
more about “Sustainability“, posted with vodpod This is the excellent presentation Jack gave on sustainability at our workshop on 19 February. And follow the link if you would like to see the other presentation from the day about Working with Young People.
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